Is Bud Light Gluten Free?
Posted by Mike in GF Product Review, Mike's JourneyDec 8th, 2009 | 6 responses
NO, NO WAY, NOT A CHANCE, DON’T TOUCH IT!
This is the same for Miller Light, Budweiser, Coors, Coors Light, Corona, Corona Light, Corona Extra, Heineken, Natural Light, Busch, Busch Light, Michelob, Michelob Light, Michelob Ultra, Miller High Life, Guinness, Becks, Labatt Blue, Sam Adams, Fat Tire, Pabst, Stella Artois, Molson, Dos Equis, Sol, Tecate, Bass, Newcastle, O’Douls, Keystone, Milwaukee’s Best, many more, & BUD LIGHT!
Please see my article on Gluten Free Beers and leave a comment about the ones you have tried. Some examples of gluten free beer: Redbridge, Bard’s Tale, Green’s, New Grist, Messagere, Sprecher, & Woodchuck.
I have been asked this question a lot, and never covered it specifically, because I thought it was pretty self-explanatory. After getting the question twice today in my live chat feature, I figured it was time to set the record straight. NO, Bud Light is not gluten free.
Being freshly out of college and my old business catering to the summer vacation crowd, beer was one of the hardest things for me to give up. On a daily basis, I was offered beer by customers and friends. It was always hard to turn it down, led to lengthy conversations about celiac, and left them feeling very sorry for me.
Today, almost a year of 100% gluten free, I still miss normal beer only a little, I’d be lying if I said I didn’t. It was very hard in the beginning, but the desire is much less now. Now, I choose something different and don’t sweat over it. The gluten free beers taste much better now than they used to, probably because I am forgetting the taste of Bud Light.
I have gluten beer in my fridge that has been there from before I switched to gluten free. It has helped to have it in there, so that I can pass the willpower test every day. I even threw some gluten free awareness wristbands around a few to always remind me. It has worked.
Here is a before and after photo… of the beer I am drinking, not my weight, hahaha.
Before: In college drinking a Bud Light.
After: Recently holding a Woodchuck.
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Woodchuck is my favorite GFree “Beer”. I prefer the Pear variety because it’s a bit sweeter. I also like Hardcore, another cider. And sometimes at World Market they have “Ace Perry Cider” which is from a small brewery out in California. That is delicious as well!
I’ve never been a fan of regular beer, so Redbridge doesn’t really float my boat.
woodchuck ftmfw
ya i wasnt a big beer person and the ones i like were the darker heavier beers. redbridge isnt bad, not the best beer but it will do.
we can just use celiac as an excuse to drink top dollar liquor since its hard to find a cheap gluten free version of the different liquors
-matt
You made a good trade up on the girl but not convinced about the beer.
Is Woodchuck really considered beer? I was very much enjoying the taste of beer when I was diagnosed with celiacs. Now, I feel I am stuck with hard apple and pear ciders for life that are much too sweet.
Tammy:
Not really… Woodchuck is a “hard” cider…beer. LOL
You know, there are gluten free beers: http://switch2glutenfree.com/gluten-free-businesses/gluten-free-beer-reviews/
tammy, try the other versions of wood chuck, the grany smith is much more tart, the 802 is a little less sweet than the amber. there is also hornsbys hard cider that tastes very yeasty but i thought it was bad.
redbridge is a god choice and pretty easy to find but you know its not the best thing in the world compared to “Real” beer
-matt